Senior BIOS/UEFI Engineer
Senior BIOS/UEFI Engineer
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$ 136329 - 204493
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Job Description
At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
As a Senior BIOS/UEFI Firmware Engineer you will play a critical role in designing developing and porting UEFI firmware for our custom hardware will collaborate with various teams across the company including hardware engineers software developers and quality assurance teams to ensure robust secure and high-performance firmware solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design develop debug and maintain x86 UEFI firmware.
- Implement and optimize firmware features including bootloaders system initialization and hardware abstraction layers.
- Collaborate with hardware teams to ensure seamless integration of firmware with system components.
- Maintain support for Secure Boot power management and system diagnostics.
- Write and review low-level code in C and assembly.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards such as UEFI and ACPI.
- Perform system-level debugging and root cause analysis for firmware related issues.
- Contribute to firmware validation testing and documentation processes.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on firmware development best practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or masters degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in BIOS/UEFI firmware development for x86 ARM or otherrelevant architectures.
- Strong proficiency in C and Assembly understanding of embedded systems.
- In-depth knowledge of UEFI ACPI and related standards.
- Experience with firmware debugging tools (e.g. JTAG oscilloscopes logic analyzers).
- Familiarity with hardware interfaces such as PCIe I2C SPI and UART.
- Understanding of Secure Boot BootGuard trusted platform modules (TPM) and firmware security best practices.
- Experience with source control systems (e.g. Git) and an understanding ofagile development methodologies.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Experience reading and maintaining legacy code.
- Proficiency in reading technical documentation.
- Experience with firmware for Intel CPUs chipsets and CRBs.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with AMI Aptio V BIOS.
- Knowledge of low-level operating system interactions and kernel development.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux or real-time operating systems (RTOS).
- Experience with automated testing frameworks for firmware validation.
- Understanding of power management and thermal control in firmware design.
- Understanding of full disk encryption.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
The annual base pay for this position is: $136329.00 - $204493.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age sensory physical or mental disability marital status veteran or military status genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable local state or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including but not limited to hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
